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[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Snaps predate flatpaks though.

[–] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but only in 2016 were they made available for other Linux distros. Flatpaks were available since 2015.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So why would Canonical switch to another technology that came after what they made and doesn't cover their biggest use cases for snaps?

[–] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not saying they would.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But if flatpak doesn't meet the widest use case of snap, are they really describing flatpak?

[–] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I replied to:

With snap they can release the package a single time, and it can be used across all of their releases. I think this is the main point of snap. Being able to use it across other systemd distros is just a bonus.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago

Flatpak is not a solution for packaging a large portion of the types of software Canonical packages with snap, such as database servers, kernels and containerisation software like lxd.